Return of the Light - EASTER SPECIAL
Return of the Light - EASTER SPECIAL  
Podcast: Small Ways To Live Well from The Simple Things
Published On: Fri Apr 18 2025
Description: Join us for our Easter Special episode of Small Ways to Live Well, the podcast from The Simple Things magazine Released on Good Friday, Team TST are recording live from a Blackdown Shepherd Hut in Somerset where they’ll enjoy cake and decorate an Ostereierbaum (Easter tree) before trying a sauna and cold plunge and warming up with rival hot chocolate recipes. Plus the signs that spring proper is here, stories of cute spring animals and making the most of April showers.  Oh and we’re learning how ducks quack in other languages.  Co-hosted by The Simple Things Editor, Lisa Sykes; wellbeing editor Rebecca Frank and author of The Slow Traveller,  Jo TinsleyOur Easter Special and Season 5: Return of the light is supported by Blackdown Shepherd Huts. If you are in the UK, you can choose an immediate start subscription to the The Simple Things and receive the current issue straight away. Or buy current and back issues here. The May TEND issue  is on sale at picsandink.com from 17 April, on newsstands 24 April Editing and music by Arthur Cosslett.  To read:Play spring bingo – signs that spring is really here Speak like a duck abroad  To bake:Simnel cake recipe & historyHot cross buns recipeGugelhupf  – Austrian Easter cakes To make:Ostereierbaum (Easter tree) Dyed eggs Hot chocolate Tangerine & nutmeg Sea salt Spiced With pink peppercorns  Orangey tipple  To buy:M&S Simnel cakeBlackdown sauna & cold plunge deck Beautiful mugs in the Blackdown hut for hot chocolate were by Florence Ceramics  From The Simple Things: In the April JAUNT issue Rain gardensEaster buns of EuropeMagical Creatures – mallards  In our new anthology&